"If Judge William Alsup rules that APIs are subject to copyrights, he would overturn common wisdom in programming circles, potentially exposing many companies and developers who have built software platforms that openly mimic existing APIs. But that's not all. Such a ruling could shake things up for many other companies across the programming world and beyond." The fact we even have to worry about this speaks volumes about the state of the industry.

It probably wouldn't be so outside of "the country" in question here, though... and I imagine that most of the world would kinda like (and benefit from) such situation (and how long it would take for "the country" to conclude it was an error?)